Corvus monedula Scandinavian Jackdaw?!

Whilst photographing the usual gulls at Watermead CP South I took a number of photos of this interesting looking Jackdaw by the car park. I might be wrong but it does look like a Scandinavian Jackdaw (Corvus monedula) to me!





Comments

Certainly looks like one of the Scandinavian/eastern races (soemmerringii/nominate monedula), although I'm not sure they're completely identifiable from each other. Previous county records have been accepted as showing the characters of one or the other. Andrew Harrop did an article in Birding World about racial ID of Jackdaws - volume 13 (2000), although mine are in a box in the attic so I can't easily check!
davidearlgray said…
Thanks Andy I will check out the article!

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